The true secret to great sleep is to be able to temporarily not give a shit about your problems. When I was a kid and hated school due to being teased, my parents put me to bed at about 7pm on school nights. I learned really early in life that you have to be able to put aside anything that bothers you. I have been able to do this for about 25 years now and I sleep like the dead. I ignore my phone and pretty much anything else while I sleep. I learned to have no cares. I have a house and do worry about money and other things, but when I sleep it is me time. My wife and I had to live with my then best friend while we were fixing up our place and we hated it. One day my father in law came to the place where we were living to get me to go to the house we were working on. He is a big guy and was a marine, so I know he can yell pretty loud. Well, I was sleeping when he showed up and he says he was inches from my face yelling at me to wake up. I woke up several hours later and had no clue that he had been there. Not giving a shit is the best way to sleep.

(07-12-2012 02:52 AM)Birdguy1979 Wrote: The true secret to great sleep is to be able to temporarily not give a shit about your problems. When I was a kid and hated school due to being teased, my parents put me to bed at about 7pm on school nights. I learned really early in life that you have to be able to put aside anything that bothers you. I have been able to do this for about 25 years now and I sleep like the dead. I ignore my phone and pretty much anything else while I sleep. I learned to have no cares. I have a house and do worry about money and other things, but when I sleep it is me time. My wife and I had to live with my then best friend while we were fixing up our place and we hated it. One day my father in law came to the place where we were living to get me to go to the house we were working on. He is a big guy and was a marine, so I know he can yell pretty loud. Well, I was sleeping when he showed up and he says he was inches from my face yelling at me to wake up. I woke up several hours later and had no clue that he had been there. Not giving a shit is the best way to sleep.

Yeah, but not everyone can manage that. I'm like this, too, and most of the time have no trouble putting everything aside. Noise, however, I can't deal with. I'm an extremely light sleeper (as in painfully light) and that can really suck. But yeah, sleep is 'me time' and anyone who messes with my 'me time' has it coming